Looking for Gold in Distant Mountains

At the end of June 1990, a six-member advance team of the Heilongjiang Geological Team No. 3 Went north to the Zhanhe Forest Area of ​​the Xiaoxing'an Mountains to conduct a gold mine survey in Laojingou. Team leader Chen Gang led the team, including young engineer Shi Shouxin, retired driller Feng Changyou, Beijing girl Su Xiaoyan who was out in the field for the first time, and weak surveyor Li Xiangdong. Under the guidance of ranger Zhou Baoguo and horse driver Lao Zhang, they went deep into the virgin forest. What appeared earlier than the mineral veins were the footprints of a fresh Siberian tiger by the stream. That night, the tiger roared and approached, and the man and tiger confronted each other twenty meters away, only to be frightened off by firing a gun. In the days that followed, hanging claws, urine stains, and leftover roe deer kept reminding everyone that it was in the dark. Everyone continued to push forward despite the tiger's shadow, and finally found the main vein of five or six meters wide. They took more than a hundred bags of samples and evacuated. The test results came out more than a month later, and the mine confirmed it. The large group of people marched into the ravine in a mighty manner, the machines roared, and the tents became a village. And that tiger never appeared again...